Every category where a model named Airbyte for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
ETL and ELT	Data platform	32%	1 of 66	4%	50	endorsed leader
Workflow orchestration	Data platform	0%	68 of 86	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Prefect at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Airbyte yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Airbyte across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	1	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	3	1	0	0	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	4	0	0	6
Perplexity Sonar	1	3	0	0	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	3	1	6
Mistral Small	1	1	1	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	3	0	0	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	1	0	1	4
Kimi K2	3	2	0	1	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	3	0	0	5
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	1	0	3

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct26 labels11

Paraphrase36 labels6

Comparative32 labels7not counted in share

Budget-constrained27 labels19

Scale-constrained18 labels1

Negative23 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative162 labels in all, every segment counted; 37 of the 47 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Choose Airbyte (Self-Hosted) if you have a software engineer who can set up a Docker instance and you need to connect to many different SaaS APIs for free.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ETL · budget prompt · first choice

“Airbyte - Excels in cloud ELT with 300+ pre-built connectors... open-source and free to use for beginners and small teams” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ETL · budget prompt · first choice

“Best For: Open-source flexibility and cost control. ... Airbyte (open-source) is cheapest if you have infra skills.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ETL · comparative prompt · first choice

“### 1. Airbyte (Open Source)... Pros: Large connector library, active community, easy to use” Kimi K2 · ETL · budget prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Teams often try to use heavy orchestrators like Apache Airflow, Airbyte, or Dagster to "clean up" a messy, decentralized data architecture.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Orchestration · negative prompt · soft negative

“Described by users as "very badly built" with "terrible support" ... problematic for production workloads at scale” Kimi K2 · ETL · negative prompt · soft negative

“poor scalability... OK for small, simple syncs if self-hosted cautiously.” Grok 4.1 Fast · ETL · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Airbyte, over the 159 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Airbyte was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fivetran133 of 15933Compare →

Hevo Data84 of 15916Not in the top three

Stitch75 of 1595Not in the top three

dbt74 of 1592Not in the top three

Talend67 of 1591Not in the top three

Matillion65 of 1591Not in the top three

Integrate.io45 of 15912Compare →

Apache Airflow45 of 1590Not in the top three

Skyvia43 of 1596Not in the top three

AWS Glue38 of 1590Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Airbyte. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 127 of the 159 answers that named Airbyte and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hevodata.com91

integrate.io84

skyvia.com61

fivetran.com54

airbyte.comYour site48

g2.com41

sqream.com40

bladepipe.com39

datacamp.com38

estuary.dev37

485 of the 533 domain citations in answers naming Airbyte came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

integrate.io/blog/top-7-etl-tools58

sqream.com/blog/best-etl-tools40

skyvia.com/blog/best-etl-tools-for-small-businesses39

datacamp.com/blog/a-list-of-the-16-best-etl-tools-and-why-to-choose-them38

hevodata.com/learn/etl-tools-for-small-businesses37

bladepipe.com/blog/data_insights/best_etl_tool_for_small_business32

stacksync.com/blog/26-best-etl-tools-2025-curated-list27

dataquest.io/blog/etl-tools-practical-guide-with-examples26

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Airbyte

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Airbyte; a claim can dispute any of them.

Airbyte Cloud 2Airbyte (Open Source Edition) 1Airbyte (Open-Source Version) 1Airbyte (Self-hosted) 1Airbyte + dbt Core 1Airbyte Self-Hosted 1

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